![]() ![]() I do agree with Sridhar Srinivasan about thesymbiotic nature of Sanskrit and Tamil (and also otherIndian languages). I love Sanskrit,but I would never claim its zillions of nit-pickingrules make it somehow an epitome of order and perfectstructure. The Dravidian relativizing systemis extremely straight-forward and logical the IE one- shared by Sanskrit (and English) - is quite messyand verbose. Then you can embed that sentence inany other sentence. Consider this: inDravidian, you can take any sentence and turn it intoan adverb, adjective, or noun by simply changing theending on the verb. To my mind,Tamil and the other Dravidian languages have much moreelegant and logical structures. It verymuch resembles Russian, Latin, and Greek (which I havealso read) - to which it is closely akin. ![]() I can attest that the grammar of Sanskrit is no moreelegant or perfect than any other IE language. This has been demonstrated time and time again- the earliest occurrences of the word in IA aredramiDa > draviDa.ĥ. ![]() ![]() The word Dravidian clearly comes from the wordTamil. Actually both languages have aboutthe same number of phonemes.Ĥ. Tamil has short e and o, zh, R, n, and manypermutations of stops - e.g. Sanskrit also lacks some sounds that are availablein Tamil. Itssystem of phonetics is profoundly influenced byDravidian - Indo-Aryan is the only IE family withretroflexes.ģ. Much of the syntax of Sanskrit isDravidian, and it has a large Dravidian vocabulary. Of course, someDravidian languages have also borrowed Sanskrit sounds(bh, etc.) But none of the four Dravidian languages Ihave read has borrowed anything from Sanskrit syntaxthat I can identify. The fact is, Sanskrit HAS beeninfluenced in this way by Dravidian. But when it uses another language's syntaxto form the way it expresses things, and uses anotherlanguage's phonology for its sounds, that is reallyprofound influence. Tamil has borrowed morewords from Sanskrit than Sanskrit has from Dravidian.It is a trivial thing for a language to borrowvocabulary. Sanskrit has borrowed quite as much from Dravidianas Dravidian has from Sanskrit. Sanskrit is documentedearlier than Tamil.Ģ. Neither Sanskrit nor Tamil are particularly old inthe world scheme of things. Purananuru Poems In Tamil With Meaning Dictionaryįrom a posting in 1997 byGeorge Hart, Professor of Tamil, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley on Tamil, Brahmins, &Sanskrit:ġ. ![]()
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